Improvement in fanning-mills



"To all whom/:it may concern.-

Be` it known"I that I,"LEMUEL ENsIGN, of Millburnfin the county `of Broome and State `of` New York, have invented certain new and `useful ImprovementsinFanning-Mills; and I do hereby declare that the following isafull, clear, and exact description ef the constructionand operation of the same, reference bei ing had to theanueied drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- ,y "Figure l is aperspectve View.` Fig. 2is a l transverse section; Fig. 3, an end view of a l part `of the n1ill,showing thevibrating spring- *hammeru Fig. 4 represents the cockle and chess riddle with elongated meshes and plate n' onthe under side. y i. ,n

y The nature of my inventonconsists in the arrangement and combination of the different y parts, `as hereinafter set forth. y

In this millthe drum is` contracted'and the frbnt part isenlarged, so as to increase the size ofthe riddlesfthe whole being reduced to at is capableof doing as much work and better n work than the old` mills. R', R, and R' are the ri i n taking chess or cockle out of grain, which can be thoroughlydoneby running the grain once i through. Rf, the cockle-riddle, is made with y `elongated rneshes',andis providedwith a plate, fp, attached to the under side, upon which the i spring-hammer S strikes. As the hopper H vibrates horizontally the loweredge passes overfthe curved part of the spring-hammer S,

ddles arranged for `least one-half the size ofordinary mills, yet it UNITED f STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LriMUEnENsIGN, or MIL'LBURN, NEW YORK.

i Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,594, dated `June 17, 1862,

causing it to strike on the plate p, and thus "keeping the riddle clear, allowing a free passage of the chess into the hopper C. By taking out the chess-riddle R in the lower part of the hopper and putting in its place a blank riddle, L, then putting the grass-seed riddle g in the place of the middle riddleR/, placing the latter in the place of the upper riddle, R,

then taking out the long riddle m under the drum and putting'in its place a blank riddle,

the mill isin order for cleaning grass-seed or y other small seeds.

A slide, '13, held by the screw w, regulates the feed of the hopper. .B is a box for holding extra riddles when not in use.

' The advantagesof this mill are that it may be made so small as to take up but little room,

and can, by shifting the riddles as described above, be changed quickly from a grain-mill to a grass-seed mill. By the device of the spring-hammer acting on the chess or cockle screen it cleans grain better than any other mill in use. n

What I claim as my invention, and desire to LEMUEL ENSIGN.

Witnesses: A

E. B. STODDARD, DAVID ENsIGN. 

